ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19198, 15 March 1926, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

MOTOR TRUCK AND TRAIN,

A half-ton motor truck crashed into a train at the To tarn avenue crossing near the New Lynn station (Auckland) at about 10.45 a.in. on Saturday. A passenger in the truck, named Noel Cutler, of Golf road, New Lynn, received a severe cut on the head .and injuries io his left log. A. Graces, ihe owner and driver of the truck, escaped with nothing worse than a few scratches. The truck itscli was carried a couple of chains by the train, and was deposited in a shattered condition almost in the station. WOMAN KILLED. Mrs Elsie Leroy, who resided at .Rcinucru, and who was struck by a taxi cab on Friday night while stepping off the footpath, suffering a Iracturo of the left leg, fracture of the jaw, and scalp wounds, died in hospital on Saturday morning. BOWLER’S DEATH. James Cole Davidson, a member of a team of Taranaki bowlers visiting Auckland, died suddenly on Friday night. Ho collapsed after returning irom the theatre, death being duo to heart failure. CAR AND CYCLE COLLIDE. A Stratford Association message states that last evening a motor car driven by Mr Glennie, of Hnwera, collided with a motor cycle ridden by W Reilly, with whom was Miss Byron, of New Plymouth, at a road intersection. Reilly’s right leg was fractured, the foot being almost torn off. At the hospital the leg was amputated, and his condition is grave. _ Bliss Byron escaped with sundry abrasions, and is making a good recovery. FALL TO WHARF. T. Crown, a married man, aged forty-two, while working on the steamer Huntingdon at Lyttelton, fell from the deck to the wharf and fractured his skull. His condition is serious.—Press Association. YOUNG MAN DROWNED. A young man named Keith A. Mitchell, aged twenty-seven, employed at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s local banich, was out fishing with two companions—Fred Grey and Edward Mellor —near Maule’s Gorge, on the West coast, yesterday, when Mitchell, who could not swim, got into one of the many lagoons which abound in this part of the beach. Grey tied a fishing line round himself and made an attempt at rescue, but lie was unsuccessful. The body has not yet been recovered. Mitchell _ was very popular locally, particularly in athletic circles.—Danncvirke P.A. message.